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The psycho surgeon accused of gunning down his ex-wife and her new husband allegedly pumped nearly two dozen bullets into the couple after breaking into their Ohio home, autopsy reports showed.
Monique and Spencer Tepe were found with a total of 16 gunshot wounds — including to their heads — when Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon in Illinois, allegedly trekked to their Columbus home and killed the sleeping couple on Dec. 30, according to the Franklin County Coroner’s Office, People reported.
Monique — who was married to the alleged killer for two years before she filed for divorce in 2017 — suffered nine gunshot wounds, including to her right cheek, multiple to her torso and three to the chest.
The coroner ruled the 39-year-old died from “gunshot wounds of the head, trunk, and extremities with visceral, skeletal, and soft tissue injuries,” the outlet reported.
Her husband, Spencer, 37, was shot seven times, including once in the head, his autopsy report showed.
McKee previously warned his ex-wife that he could kill her at “any time” as part of a campaign of abuse the unfolded during and after the end of their marriage, according to court documents obtained by the Columbus Dispatch.
After the couple died, at least one witness told investigators that Monique had described moments when McKee “forced unwanted sex,” strangled her, and wielded his menacing warnings, including that he “would find her and buy the house next to hers, that she will always be his wife,” court records showed.
The chilling documents also revealed that McKee was caught on video driving near Monique and Spencer Tepe’s Columbus home on Dec. 6 before walking onto the property to scope out the house.
McKee left the home “a few hours later” after sinisterly surveilling the residence while the couple was at the Big Ten Championship football game.
Monique then left the game early at halftime and Spencer told friends she “was upset about something involving her ex-husband,” prosecutors alleged.
The accused killer returned to the couple’s home — 325 miles from his own home in Rockford, Illinois — just weeks later, to fatally shoot the Tepes in their home, leaving their two crying children unharmed.
Surveillance footage captured his car near the property numerous times, including before and after the “targeted” killings, which happened around 3:50 a.m.
Police tracked the silver SUV — tied to McKee’s previous addresses — to a hospital where he worked and nabbed him nearly two weeks later on Jan. 10 at a nearby Chick-fil-A, according to the court docs.
He has since pleaded not guilty to four counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated burglary.
McKee, who is booked at Franklin County Jail, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted in the double murder case.
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